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IB's IRA "margin" account is not a real margin account as there is no real margin borrowing takes place. What IB has is the "same day substitution" IRA. The trades still take 3 business days to settle. You do not have to wait 3 days to place another trade specially if your account balance...

Well... it is one of the slowest Autometed Trading systems even for the simple strategies that do not involve any Moving Average calculations. The people I know used Cooltrade as well as other AT systems, also agree on its slowness. They claim thousands of customers, but their Forum is still...

OldTrader, You can also call the involvong brokers (e.g., Ameritrade, IB, etc.) to find out more information for your reference. Try to get the compliance department.

Option Trader, OXPS, TOS, Ameritrade, Izone, etc. are enforcing the rules properly. It is actually IB who is putting the extra limitation. What you are having is IB's limitation--since that is how their system is coded. However, even with other brokers, you will not be able to day-trade...

Suppose your account used to be $25k or more and in addition a PDT account. If it goes below $25k, you can still be allowed to place a trade--not only just to close the old positions but also to open a new position. You cannot just keep day-trading. If you still do day-trade on any day...

At Ameritrade, if you have $100k cash at the beginning of the day, you will have DTBP available $100k x 4=$400k. You can buy/sell $400k (DTBP) worth of stocks multiple times, your DTBP gets updated real-time. The advantage is unlike IB, you can fully use 4x buying power without getting...

Can you post the link for the deal?

You may want to check your Audit Trails to start with--though the Audit Trails do not capture all the transactions correctly because of its bugs. Then, check you execution summary, trade confirmations, daily statements, etc. What did the CSR say about it?

OptionTrader, Audit Trail has its bugs too. I have seen an order sitting in the main screen as well as in the pending page; but audit trail does not seem to capture that order. I did contact CSR with no resolution. That does not mean yours would not get resolved by the CSR if you can get hold...

Rollover, Traditional IRA, Traditional-401k are alike; Roth-401k, Roth IRA are similar. Savings Incentive Match PLan for Employees may be close to Traditional IRA. You might just check with IRS. If you have plans for Roth conversion, then IB is not your broker.

Trying to move unlike IRAs at IB at any means would not be a good idea. You cannot convert IRAs at IB.

Among the brokers who offer per-trade pricing like Scottrade, Just2trade and AmeritradeIzone are the better ones.

JackR, it is not related to "unbundled" versus "bundled" commission structure selection.

TedZhang8, for those accounts from which IB took deposit off for the Security Token, they are supposed to return the deposit once the token is returned to them. Ask them to run around between their departments themselves as needed to give your money back. Unfortunately, after you close your...

On the bright side, you will probably find every version has been slightly better than the previous one. It is still not April 15th yet. I expect the final correct version will be available by then.

IB CSR has told me that login to individual account through webtrader is not possible if you have a Friends & Family account.

Among OQ, both NTs (NinjaTrader, NeoTicker) andCT (Cool-Trade) that can work with intraday data, which one does work fastest?

Right now, I do not even have quotes for stocks. It was on and off for a while.

Only once did I ever have after hours liquidation at IB. That was due to IB's error. It took me some time to have IB realize or admit that mistake. The bug was supposed to be fixed according to IB CSR.

Which of them (NT, OQ,CT) can run more than one long strategy at the same time?